The bronze award in Rio arrives in a year when Bollywood has delivered two wrestling dramatizations, including Walt Disney India's up and coming "Dangal." 

 

Thursday in the midst of news that India has won its first decoration at the Rio Olympics, with Sakshi Malik grabbing a ladies' wrestling bronze. 

 

The win is notable as it is the main ever Olympic decoration to be won by an Indian female wrestler. Malik is additionally one of just four Indian female competitors to win an Olympic award. 

 

As news of her win broke Thursday morning Indian time, news channels broadcast one end to the other scope with clasps of her triumphant session in the 58 kilo free-form wrestling classification against Kyrgyzstan's Aisuluu Tynybekova. 

 

"I generally needed to be the principal Indian lady wrestler to win an Olympic award and today I have accomplished that as an aftereffect of such a large number of years of diligent work," Sakshi was cited as saying in Hindi to news channel ABP TV. 

 

 

Complimentary messages poured in on online networking for the 23-year-old victor as #SakshiMalik turned into a top drifting point on Twitter in India. 

 

Enormous name big names who praised the win included Bollywood symbol Amitabh Bachchan, who posted a progression of tweets to his 21.9 million supporters, and performing artist Anil Kapoor (Slumdog Millionaire), who is as of now featuring in the second period of the Hindi change of Fox's 24 and who saluted Malik by saying "stars like you make India sparkle. 

 

Performing artist Tina Desai, whose credits incorporate Netflix's Sense8, which is right now taping its second season, composed: "Appreciate that you've left a mark on the world." 

 

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi shared a progression of tweets lauding Malik's accomplishment given the difficulties confronted by yearning female wrestlers in the nation. The male-overwhelmed sport has verifiably not energized ladies, but rather more ladies have tested conventional standards and taken up the game as of late.